The aim of this report is to gather evidence that will identify priorities and actions by stakeholders towards positively influencing, up scaling and accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment in Zimbabwe. The report consolidates information on gender gaps and drivers of inequality in human endowments, economic opportunities, ownership and control …
Peasant miners have set up makeshift mines on farmland and timber plantations in the country’s eastern provinces, which border Mozambique where gold fetches a higher price. Deep tunnels have been dug beneath roads, railways and buildings in the Kwekwe area of the Midlands province. In some parts of Manicaland province, …
PANIC and fear gripped the Zambezi region after people felt the tremor from the earthquake that hit Botswana at around 19h40 on Monday night. Official reports stated that the earthquake with a magnitude of 6,5 hit Botswana, with effects being felt across southern Africa, including South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. …
Government has set a task team comprising experts to assess the country's state of preparedness to earthquakes and the capacity of the Meteorological Services Department to carry out its mandate. This follows the earthquake with an epicentre in Botswana that rattled some parts of the country on Monday. Addressing journalists …
INSURANCE group, Zimnat has paid out in excess of $2 million in weather related damage claims in the four months to March 2017 following high rainfall across the country. During the rain season, incidents of damage to property, road traffic accidents as well as livestock and crop damages escalated, subsequently …
HARARE Zimbabwe (Xinhua) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Zimbabwean government on Monday jointly launched a 253 million U.S. dollars five-year plan to build resilience, end hunger and boost nutrition in Zimbabwe. The country strategic plan, running from 2017-2021, will see the WFP moving away from …
Climate disasters, poverty, a fragile economic environment, low agricultural output and HIV and AIDS are the major causes of hunger in Zimbabwe HARARE, April 3 (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday pledged $253 million to fund a five-year plan to end hunger in Zimbabwe, which …
HARARE Zimbabwe (Xinhua) -- China on Friday handed over 1.06 million U.S. dollars to Zimbabwe to help hundreds of families affected by floods that hit the southern parts of the country in February. Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Huang Ping said the friendship which exists between the two countries had spurred …
HURUNGWE, Zimbabwe, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the world's largest forest conservation projects has managed to curb deforestation in northern Zimbabwe, but the slow sale of carbon credits – on which the project depends – threatens its expansion, its organisers said. Some 785,000 hectares of prime forest …
THE impacts of climate change in Zimbabwe will run deeper should authorities fail to tie-up the National Climate Policy (NCP) quick enough, a new study by the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has warned. What would otherwise be strong strategies to curb climate damage are yet to be implemented due …
A Zimbabwean woman, Nyaradzo Makholiso, 38, miraculously survived cyclone-induced floods by "hanging precariously on a tree branch for six hours", with her 2-month-old baby strapped on her back, a report says. The floods were a result of torrential rains induced by cyclone Dineo which hit parts of the southern African …
Government plans to soon reduce huge farms to reasonably small pieces of land to meet demand from more land-hungry Zimbabweans before bringing closure to the land redistribution chapter, a Cabinet minister has revealed. Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Government was working to ensure that beneficiaries of the …
Floods in Zimbabwe have killed 246 people and left nearly 2,000 homeless since December, according to the government. The southern African country has appealed to international donors for $100 million to help those affected by the floods, which have washed away some bridges and roads and cut off some communities …
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has appealed for international help for victims of floods that have left 246 people dead and displaced hundreds since December when torrential rains started pounding a country emerging from severe drought. An El Nino-induced drought last year scorched crops in the southern African country, leaving more …
The State has laid a further charge against former professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst, in connection 'Cecil the lion's death. Harare – The state has laid a further charge against former professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst, in connection with the death of “Cecil the lion” which became the world’s most famous animal …
HARARE – Zimbabwe, which is recovering from drought and battling a pest outbreak that threatens its maize crop, has budgeted $140-million (R1,8-billion) to buy maize from farmers for its strategic reserve, Agriculture Minister Joseph Made told parliament on Thursday. Harare is holding 250,000 tons of maize in strategic reserves, half …
Beitbridge — Five people in Beitbridge District have died following an outbreak of a strain of falciparum malaria, while over 800 cases have tested positive, it has emerged. The disease, which at the onset of the rainy season was concentrated on the eastern parts of the district, has spread rapidly …
The National Farmers Union (Nafu) says small and medium-scale sugarcane and maize farmers in northern KwaZulu-Natal have been severely affected by the destructive fall armyworm. The pestilence is wreaking havoc in at least five of the province’s 11 districts and the union says many of its members in the affected …
Masvingo — The situation yesterday started slowly returning to normal at Lundi Mission on the border between Chivi and Mwenezi where nearly 300 girls at the school had to be evacuated after floods induced by heavy rains swept through dormitories.About 23 people who were marooned at the school were evacuated …
Zimbabwe requires $100 million for emergency road repairs following above normal rains that have severely damaged the urban road network and highways, a government minister said on Wednesday. Unable to get balance of payment support from foreign lenders due to unpaid arrears, and with more than 90 percent of its …
Zimbabwe's response to the outbreak of the fall armyworm has been hampered by farmer's lack of information and pesticides to fight it. This has worsened the food insecurity situation as it targets staple crop-maize. A report by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) warned that a tenth of Zimbabwe's maize …
